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Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…

Isabel Maria

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Brighton Fringe
Presuming Ed’s / The Snug
1st - 2nd Jun 2024

Isabel Maria’s quietly passionate and painfully articulate words have entranced thousands across the globe.

Maria Fedulova: Russian. Mafia. Family.

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Brighton Fringe
The Snug
31st May - 1st Jun 2024

Welcome to the Russian Mafia Family! Maria Fedulova is a Russian refugee forced to leave her country because she’s against the war.

Maria Morevna & The Moth

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Toy and Model Museum
26th - 27th May 2024

Maria Morevna became an Eco Warrior when the Moth told her that the destruction of rivers, trees and wild land affected even the smallest creatures and would change her world.

Maria Telnikoff: All The Men Are Going To Hate Me

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
25th - 27th May 2024

For millennia, men have written about sex and their work has been called Great Literature.

In Conversation with… Andrew O’Hagan

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre
6th Aug 2023

One of Britain’s most gifted and prolific writers, whose work has garnered various awards over the past 25 years.

Master Class : An Audience with Maria Callas

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Dublin
Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
13th - 27th May 2023

Winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…

Maria Stuarda

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Edinburgh Fringe
Stockbridge Church
11th - 14th Aug 2022

Stunning opera in which two famous queens are locked in dangerous power play.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.

Maria Friedman & Friends - Legacy

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West End

We are thrilled to present the world première of Maria Friedman’s brand-new show celebrating the brilliance of Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Stephen Sondheim.

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…

Our Gay Maria: Twenty Twenty Hun

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London Fringe
The Karaoke Hole
2nd Sep 2021

It’s been a long year.

Compañía María Pagés - An Ode to Time

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
10th - 12th Jul 2020

Searching for meaning in the art of flamenco, María Pagés beautifully blends art and life in her in-depth explorations of the genre itself.

Maria Shehata: Hero

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Edinburgh Fringe
Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

Failed love, crippling debt and living with an angry 83-year-old.

Maria Shehata: Work in Progress

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Brighton Fringe
Sweet @ The Welly
10th - 12th May 2019

The follow-up to her debut Edinburgh show ‘Wisdomless’, multi award-winning comedian Maria Shehata expands on her transatlantic move for love and life after it fell apart.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.

Maria Shehata - Pretty Little (Work In Progress)

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Brighton Fringe
Sweet @ The Welly
14th - 18th May 2018

Egyptian-American comedian Maria Shehata follows up her debut show ‘Wisdomless’ with stand up and storytelling about her life in London and what happened after she whimsically move…

Maria Bamford

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
21st - 23rd Mar 2018

The star of Lady Dynamite, Arrested Development and several hugely successful specials including the recent hit Old Baby (Netflix), Maria Bamford comes to the UK next Ma…

Maria Pages Compania: Yo Carmen - Flamenco Festival 2018

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
15th - 17th Feb 2018

María Pagés searches for the woman behind the femme fatale of Prosper Mérimée’s novel, a character appropriated by so many generations of men.

Maria Peters: The Science Of Cringe plus Leave to Remain/James & I

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London Fringe
The Nursery Theatre
23rd Sep 2017

In the Science of Cringe, BBC comedy writer Maria Peters explores what cringe is, why we do it and how the world would be without it.

Maria Ornata

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Infirmary Street
4th - 26th Aug 2017

A crisis has taken hold of the Heavens.

Maria Shehata: Wisdomless

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just The Tonic at the Caves
3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Having moved 5,437 miles for love, award-winning Egyptian-American comedian Maria Shehata presents her debut hour of playfully sardonic stand-up.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

Maria: The Life, Loves, and Music of Callas

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Brighton Fringe
Sweet Dukebox
27th - 29th May 2016

Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.

Maria Hassabi

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USA Regional & Tours
Museum of Modern Art
2nd Feb 2016

In recent works like “Premiere” and “Show,” Ms.

Maria Stuarda NEW YORK

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Broadway
Metropolitan Opera
29th Jan - 20th Feb 2016

The second chapter of soprano Sondra Radvanovksy’s quest to sing all three Donizetti Tudor queens in the same season has her playing the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots.

Maria Stuarda – Mary Queen of Scots

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Edinburgh Fringe
Lauriston Halls
18th - 22nd Aug 2015

Bound by blood and only by bloody acts will they be free of one another.

New York Comedy Festival: Maria Bamford

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USA Regional & Tours
Town Hall
8th Nov 2014

This rare gem of a comedian is beloved within the comedy community for her heart-wrenchingly honest stand-up and precise, carefully constructed bits.

Give Take

Give Take’s Musical Remedies are an exploration of the healing powers of the natural world.

Back Out from the Outback

The Edinburgh Fringe is brimming with acts from Down Under, but you probably won’t witness any more authentic than Susie and Mel in their storytelling show Back Out From The Outb…

Tubespotting

How long would it take to go via every single one of the 270 stations on the London Tube map? Most of us would shrug at the question, having no desire whatsoever to even consider s…

Noughts and Crosses

Shakespeare’s School brings Malorie Blackman’s much loved novel Noughts and Crosses to the stage in a performance that falls disappointingly flat despite the potential of the w…

Beats North

“Being a DJ is like being a storyteller,” we are told at the opening of Beats North, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of the powers of music.

Spring Awakening

The Italia Conti Ensemble’s rendition of Spring Awakening is a well-directed and expertly performed take on Frank Wedekind’s controversial play.

Forever Young

The Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre’s Forever Young is a heartfelt portrayal of the damaged, tormented and stolen youths of the First World War through drama, poetry and song.

Spoken Word Sundays

Just off the Royal Mile, down along the cobbles and between the narrow walls of Jackson’s Close, Appletree Writers and Friends gather every Sunday of the Fringe to celebrate spok…

Wuthering Heights

“We are not going to tell you a story,” the cast disconcertingly warns the audience in the opening minutes of Wuthering Heights.

Romeo and Juliet

Take a Shakespeare play and strip it of all of the aspects that make it a timeless sensation.

Antidepressants Are Not Overprescribed!

Come gather in the yurt at the Stand in the Square for another in the series of The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas.

The HandleBards: Macbeth

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★★★★★
Maria Hagan
Edinburgh Fringe
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - West Gate
10th Aug, 2014

Fishing rods, bike bells and shuttlecocks likely did not feature on the Elizabethan prop list for Macbeth.

Afrobeat from Poción de Fe

When afrobeat makes prime-time at the most renowned jazz club in town, you know you’re in for the good stuff.

Awhile with Seamus Heaney

The world gasped in shock when renowned Irish poet Seamus Heaney passed away in August of last year.

Hamlet

Horatio may be played by a girl in a school uniform, yet this is the only aspect of Hamlet that gives away the fact that the performers are all high school students.

15% of The Seagull

Directed by Tim Schulz and written by Liberty Martin, Cheryl Mayer and Lauren Stapleton, 15% of The Seagull is a humorous glimpse into the world of theatre adaptation and casting.

Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging - Free

Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging is a show much more savoury than its name suggests.

The News at Kate: Leftie Cock Womble

Amidst the moustachioed revolutionaries that don the walls of Viva Mexico restaurant, Kate Smurthwaite takes the mic for a thought-provoking hour of comedy.

George Orwell's 1984

Taking on the literary giant that is George Orwell’s 1984 is a notoriously difficult task, and The Stevenage Lytton Youth Thursday Group have bitten off a little more than they…

Maria Addolorata

At the beginning of Maria Addolorata, a man and a woman in caricature-like costumes sob uncontrollably and blow their noses.

Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit

‘Knob jokes with depth’ are the words that fifty-six year old Frank Skinner himself uses to describe his new stand up show Man in A Suit.

Movin' Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience

Movin’ Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience is an entertaining soirée of song and dance in homage to the great soul music pioneer of the 1950s.

Victorian Vices – The Picture of Dorian Gray

The moment you step into this showroom, I can guarantee you’ll wish you had worn your suit or gown.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

Come and meet the Faultys, the Fawltys’ delightful doppelgangers.

Frankenstein: UnBolted

Mary Shelley is likely turning in her grave at Last Chance Saloon’s rendition of Frankenstein, but no doubt she’s also struggling to stifle a giggle at their heartfelt whack at…

Tis Pity

Natalie Audley’s ‘Tis Pity is a clever retelling of John Ford’s 17th century incestuous drama ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore.

Animal Farm

The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Company present George Orwell’s Animal Farm in a remarkable, poignant enactment of the dangerous rise of tyranny in a state where ideals of f…

Belfast Boy

One man is all it takes.

Chris Turner: Pretty Fly

Bandanas, braces and £16 patchouli hand soap are just a few of the afflictions that British comedian Chris Turner has had to suffer in life as a skinny, middle class white boy.

Voca People

“Everything you are about to hear is pure human vocals,” a voiceover announces before the show begins.

Soweto Spiritual Singers

The Soweto Spiritual Singers greet their audience with the Lord’s Prayer, sung in perfect harmony.

Maria Friedman & Adam Guettel - In Concert & In Conversation

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West End
Ambassadors Theatre
20th - 21st May 2014

Ambassadors Theatre: 20th May 7pm.

Daughters

It starts with a phone call: Harry (Ralph Davis) sits in his shambolic flat in London with clothes littered everywhere.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

‘Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic’.

Nothing to Be Done

Chaseplay Theatre Company brings us an innovative reworking of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot almost to put a time on something timeless.

The Smallest Light

In 2011 a feminist punk rock group, calling themselves Pussy Riot, donned their bold balaclavas and took siege of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior and gave a performance tha…

The Price of Everything

Daniel Bye takes us on an elaborate journey of ‘high cultural value’ in The Price of Everything.

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches is given new wings by St Andrews Mermaids Theatre.

Ten Out of Ten

This performance starts outside Assembly Hall, where a blackboard instructs us to write our name on a sticker and wear it.

Diary of a Madman

‘Something very peculiar happened today’.

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is brought back to life by The Lincoln Company, proving that nearly sixty years on the play still has the power to perturb.

Donal O'Kelly's Brace - Fionnuala and Skeffy

Director and actor Donal O’Kelly returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the UK premier of Skeffy.

Howie the Rookie

Mark O’Rowe revisits his interlocking monologue Howie the Rookie to produce something you are unlikely to forget.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.

It's Dark Outside

The acclaimed trio, Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaac are back in Edinburgh with their latest collaborative project.

Substance

Substance is a new and original piece by the promising Irish playwright Eva O’Connor.

Maria, 1968

Review
★★★★
Ed Nightingale
Edinburgh Fringe
12th Aug, 2012

Maria, 1968 is a contemporary take on Romanticism – in all its forms.

The Birdies Film Festival

Review
★★★
Maria Prassinou
FUSE International
20th Jul, 2014

The Birdies Film Festival at the Odeon in Kingston left everyone with a chippering sensation of delight.

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An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…

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